Exception when opening tools - prefereces

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Hi-
I just downloaded JDeveloper 9.0.3.1035 for Win 2000. Pointed it at a JDK 1.3.1, and ran the ojvm installer. When I try to open tools -> preferences, I get an error dialog with the following exception (below). Tried other JVMs without success. Has anyone else seen this? Any suggestions? This kind of makes the IDE unusable, as I can't customize it. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
arun
java.lang.NullPointerException
     void oracle.ide.addin.config.AddinManagerOptions.copyToImpl(oracle.ide.addin.config.AddinManagerOptions)
          AddinManagerOptions.java:151
     java.lang.Object oracle.ide.addin.config.AddinManagerOptions.copyTo(java.lang.Object)
          AddinManagerOptions.java:462
     void oracle.ide.util.ModelUtil.deepCopy(java.util.Map, java.util.Map)
          ModelUtil.java:297
     void oracle.ide.config.IdeSettings.copyToImpl(oracle.ide.config.IdeSettings)
          IdeSettings.java:137
     java.lang.Object oracle.ide.config.IdeSettings.copyTo(java.lang.Object)
          IdeSettings.java:131
     boolean oracle.ide.config.IdeSettings.showDialog(java.awt.Frame, oracle.ide.config.IdeSettings, java.lang.String[])
          IdeSettings.java:313
     void oracle.ide.config.IdeSettings.showDialog(java.awt.Frame)
          IdeSettings.java:241
     int oracle.ide.cmd.IdeSettingsCommand.doit()
          IdeSettingsCommand.java:35
     int oracle.ide.CommandProcessor.invoke(oracle.ide.addin.Command, boolean)
          CommandProcessor.java:363
     int oracle.ide.CommandProcessor.invoke(oracle.ide.addin.Command)
          CommandProcessor.java:115
     void oracle.ide.IdeAction$1.run()
          IdeAction.java:614
     void java.awt.event.InvocationEvent.dispatch()
          InvocationEvent.java:154
     void java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(java.awt.AWTEvent)
          EventQueue.java:337
     boolean java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForHierarchy(java.awt.Component)
          EventDispatchThread.java:131
     void java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(java.awt.Conditional, java.awt.Component)
          EventDispatchThread.java:98
     void java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(java.awt.Conditional)
          EventDispatchThread.java:93
     void java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run()
          EventDispatchThread.java:85

Answer 1

I am having the same, exact problem. I only replied to, hopefully, provide some additional data points. I am using j2se 1.4.1 on both a M$ XP box and a Solaris/sparc box. Both have jdev 9.03 running. On the Sun box I have no problems pulling up the tools->preferences menu item, but this does not work on window$.
See stack trace in previous message.
I also get a stack trace on startup (starting jdev from the command console), which is:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: file:/C:/jdeveloper/jdev/lib/modelers.jar!/oracle/bm/activitymodel/res/defaul
s.xml
at oracle.ide.net.JarIndex.getFile(JarIndex.java:521)
at oracle.ide.net.JarIndex.openInputStream(JarIndex.java:149)
at oracle.ide.net.JarURLFileSystemHelper.openInputStream(JarURLFileSystemHelper.java:292)
at oracle.ide.net.URLFileSystem.openInputStream(URLFileSystem.java:959)
at oracle.ide.marshal.xml.Object2Dom.getDocument(Object2Dom.java:1094)
at oracle.ide.marshal.xml.Object2Dom.toObject(Object2Dom.java:254)
at oracle.ide.marshal.xml.Object2Dom.toObject(Object2Dom.java:242)
at oracle.bm.commonIde.ModelerPreferencesAddin.ensureCores(ModelerPreferencesAddin.java:215)
at oracle.bm.commonIde.ModelerPreferencesAddin.initialize(ModelerPreferencesAddin.java:123)
at oracle.ide.AddinManager.initializeAddin(AddinManager.java:1064)
at oracle.ide.AddinManager.initializeAddins(AddinManager.java:974)
at oracle.ide.AddinManager.initProductAndUserAddins(AddinManager.java:490)
at oracle.ide.Ide.initProductAndUserAddins(Ide.java:1014)
at oracle.ide.Ide.startupImpl(Ide.java:1657)
at oracle.ide.Ide.startup(Ide.java:1349)
at oracle.ideimpl.IdeMain.main(IdeMain.java:36)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: file:/C:/jdeveloper/jdev/lib/modelers.jar!/oracle/bm/typemodel/res/defaults.x
l
at oracle.ide.net.JarIndex.getFile(JarIndex.java:521)
at oracle.ide.net.JarIndex.openInputStream(JarIndex.java:149)
at oracle.ide.net.JarURLFileSystemHelper.openInputStream(JarURLFileSystemHelper.java:292)
at oracle.ide.net.URLFileSystem.openInputStream(URLFileSystem.java:959)
at oracle.ide.marshal.xml.Object2Dom.getDocument(Object2Dom.java:1094)
at oracle.ide.marshal.xml.Object2Dom.toObject(Object2Dom.java:254)
at oracle.ide.marshal.xml.Object2Dom.toObject(Object2Dom.java:242)
at oracle.bm.commonIde.ModelerPreferencesAddin.ensureCores(ModelerPreferencesAddin.java:215)
at oracle.bm.commonIde.ModelerPreferencesAddin.initialize(ModelerPreferencesAddin.java:123)
at oracle.ide.AddinManager.initializeAddin(AddinManager.java:1064)
at oracle.ide.AddinManager.initializeAddins(AddinManager.java:974)
at oracle.ide.AddinManager.initProductAndUserAddins(AddinManager.java:490)
at oracle.ide.Ide.initProductAndUserAddins(Ide.java:1014)
at oracle.ide.Ide.startupImpl(Ide.java:1657)
at oracle.ide.Ide.startup(Ide.java:1349)
at oracle.ideimpl.IdeMain.main(IdeMain.java:36)
Anyway, thanks ahead of time for your help.